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Adachi, Barbara The Voices and Hands of Bunraku Kodansha International Ltd. 1978 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Price clipped. Book #or1170219. ISBN #087011333X / 9780870113338. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan HarperCollinsPublishers 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170529. ISBN #006019314X / 9780060193140. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan HarperCollinsPublishers 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170529. ISBN #006019314X / 9780060193140. (filed under: Japan ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix shows what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status. Influenced by an unusual combination of the Japanese imperial tradition and a modern scientific worldview, the young emperor gradually evolves into his preeminent role, aligning himself with the growing ultranationalist movement, perpetuating a cult of religious emperor worship, resisting attempts to curb his power, and all the while burnishing his image as a reluctant, passive monarch. Here we see Hirohito as he truly was: a man of strong will and real authority. Supported by a vast array of previously untapped primary documents, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan is perhaps most illuminating in lifting the veil on the mythology surrounding the emperor's impact on the world stage. Focusing closely on Hirohito's interactions with his advisers and successive Japanese governments, Bix sheds new light on the causes of the China War in 1937 and the start of the Asia-Pacific War in 1941. And while conventional wisdom has had it that the nation's increasing foreign aggression was driven and maintained not by the emperor but by an elite group of Japanese militarists, the reality, as witnessed here, is quite different. Bix documents in detail the strong, decisive role Hirohito played in wartime operations, from the takeover of Manchuria in 1931 through the attack on Pearl Harbor and ultimately the fateful decision in 1945 to accede to an unconditional surrender. In fact, the emperor stubbornly prolonged the war effort and then used the horrifying bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, together with the Soviet entrance into the war, as his exit strategy from a no-win situation. From the moment of capitulation, we see how American and Japanese leaders moved to justify the retention of Hirohito as emperor by whitewashing his wartime role and reshaping the historical consciousness of the Japanese people. The key to this strategy was Hirohito's alliance with General MacArthur, who helped him maintain his stature and shed his militaristic image, while MacArthur used the emperor as a figurehead to assist him in converting Japan into a peaceful nation. Their partnership ensured that the emperor's image would loom large over the postwar years and later decades, as Japan began to make its way in the modern age and struggled -- as it still does -- to come to terms with its past. Until the very end of a career that embodied the conflicting aims of Japan's development as a nation, Hirohito remained preoccupied with politics and with his place in history. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan provides the definitive account of his rich life and legacy. Meticulously researched and utterly engaging, this book is proof that the history of twentieth-century Japan cannot be understood apart from the life of its most remarkable and enduring leader.
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Bramble, P. Sean Culture Shock! Japan: A Survival Guide To Customs And Etiquette 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104587. ISBN #1558689354 / 9781558689350. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Bramble, P. Sean Culture Shock! Japan: A Survival Guide To Customs And Etiquette 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104587. ISBN #1558689354 / 9781558689350. (filed under: Japan ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Whether you're conducting business, traveling for pleasure, or even relocating abroad, one mistake with customs or etiquette can leave a bad taste in everyone's mouth. International travelers, now more than ever, are not just individuals from the United States, but ambassadors and impression makers for the country as a whole. Newly updated, redesigned, and resized for maximum shelf appeal for travelers of all ages, Culture Shock country and city guides make up the most complete reference series for customs and etiquette you can find. These are not just travel guides; these are guides for a way of life.
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Buchanan, Daniel Crump Japanese Proverbs And Sayings hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1131788. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Chamberlain, Basil Hall Japanese Things; Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With Japan Tuttle Pub 1978 mass market paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or975661. ISBN #0804807132 / 9780804807135. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Chamberlain, Basil Hall Japanese Things; Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With Japan Tuttle Pub 1978 mass market paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or975661. ISBN #0804807132 / 9780804807135. (filed under: Japan ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary One of the first westerners to write about Japan, Chamberlain lived there for over thirty five years, and was proficient in ancient and modern Japanese. Chamberlain's resided in Japan during a time of transition when, as he put it, old things passed away between a night and a morning. To record some things before they vanished, but also to show how old and new coexisted in Japan, he wrote this guide. Instead of places, like a travel guide, he writes about subjects, in alphabetical order beginning with abacus and ending with the zoology of Japan. In between he discusses, among other subjects, acupuncture, Japanese chess, music, fashionable crazes, foreign employees, tattooing, silk, the Japanese use of English, the navy, embroidery, and the traditional Japanese system of time.
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Cuyler, P.L. Sumo: From Rite to Sport Weatherhill 1985 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155583. ISBN #0834802031 / 9780834802032. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Dunn, C. J. Everyday Life in Imperial Japan Dorset Press 1989 Hard Cover. Book: Clean text. B&W drawings. DJ: Minor tears.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or552368. ISBN #0880293527 / 9780880293525. (keywords: JAPANESE HISTORY CULTURE CUSTOMS SOCIETY) (filed under: Japan ) *
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Earhart, H. Byron Japanese Relgion: Unity And Diversity Fourth Edition (Religious Life In History) Wadsworth/ Thomson 2004 paperback. . Some highlighting.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1141725. ISBN #0534176941 / 9780534176945. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Finn, Dallas Meiji Revisited : The Sites of Victorian Japan Weatherhill, Incorporated 1995 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1173194. ISBN #0834802880 / 9780834802889. (keywords: JAPAN HISTORY / JAPAN) (filed under: Japan ) *
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Hammer, Joshua Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake And Fire That Helped Forge The Path To World War II Free Press 2006 hardcover. Foxing to page edges.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1173347. ISBN #0743264657 / 9780743264655. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Hammer, Joshua Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake And Fire That Helped Forge The Path To World War II Free Press 2006 hardcover. Foxing to page edges.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1173347. ISBN #0743264657 / 9780743264655. (filed under: Japan ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Yokohama Burning is the story of the worst natural disaster of the twentieth century: the earthquakes, fires, and tsunamis of September 1923 that destroyed Yokohama and most of Tokyo and killed 140,000 people during two days of horror. With cinematic vividness and from multiple perspectives, acclaimed Newsweek correspondent Joshua Hammer re-creates harrowing scenes of death, escape, and rescue. He also places the tumultuous events in the context of history and demonstrates how they set Japan on a path to even greater tragedy. At two minutes to noon on Saturday, September 1, 1923, life in the two cities was humming along at its usual pace. An international merchant fleet, an early harbinger of globalization, floated in Yokohama harbor and loaded tea and silk on the docks. More than three thousand rickshaws worked the streets of the port. Diplomats, sailors, spies, traders, and other expatriates lunched at the Grand Hotel on Yokohama's Bund and prowled the dockside quarter known as Bloodtown. Eighteen miles north, in Tokyo, the young Prince Regent, Hirohito, was meeting in his palace with his advisers, and the noted American anthropologist Frederick Starr was hard at work in his hotel room on a book about Mount Fuji. Then, in a mighty shake of the earth, the world as they knew it ended. When the temblor struck, poorly constructed buildings fell instantly, crushing to death thousands of people or pinning them in the wreckage. Minutes later, a great wall of water washed over coastal resort towns, inundating people without warning. Chemicals exploded, charcoal braziers overturned, neighborhoods of flimsy wooden houses went up in flames. With water mains broken, fire brigades could only look on helplessly as the inferno spread. Joshua Hammer searched diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts and conducted interviews with nonagenarian survivors to piece together a minute-by-minute account of the catastrophe. But the
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Heisig, James W. Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters Japan Pubns 1994 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1194528. ISBN #0870407392 / 9780870407390. (keywords: WRITTEN COMMUNICATION LINGUISTICS ARTS) (filed under: Japan ) *
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Hills, Ben Princess Masako: Prisoner Of The Chrysanthemum Throne 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136481. ISBN #1585425680 / 9781585425686. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Hills, Ben Princess Masako: Prisoner Of The Chrysanthemum Throne 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136481. ISBN #1585425680 / 9781585425686. (filed under: Japan ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess-with a new afterword by the author. It's the fantasy of many young women: marry a handsome prince, move into a luxurious palace, and live happily ever after. But that's not how it turned out for Masako Owada. Ben Hills's fascinating portrait of Princess Masako and the Chrysanthemum Throne draws on research in Tokyo and rural Japan, at Oxford and Harvard, and from more than sixty interviews with Japanese, American, British, and Australian sources-many of whom have never spoken publicly before-shedding light on the royal family's darkest secrets, secrets that can never be openly discussed in Japan because of the reverence in which the emperor and his family are held. But most of all, this is a story about a love affair that went tragically wrong. The paperback edition will contain a new afterword by the author, discussing the impact this book had in Japan, where it was banned.
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Hori, Ichiro Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change University of Chicago Press 1974 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1181823. ISBN #0226353346 / 9780226353340. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Ishimoto, Shidzue Facing Two Ways : The Story of My Life Stanford University Press 1984 paperback. The covers have crease, rubbing. Text is clean with no markings or highlights.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1180127. ISBN #0804712409 / 9780804712408. (keywords: JAPAN BIOGRAPHY WOMEN AUTOBIOGRAPHY GENERAL) (filed under: Japan ) *
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Iwamiya, Takeji;Takaoka, Kazuya Katachi: Classic Japanese Design Chronicle Books Llc 1999 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1183974. ISBN #0811825477 / 9780811825474. (keywords: GRAPHIC DESIGN) (filed under: Japan ) *
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Kidder, J.E. Jr. Japan Before Buddhism hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1120191. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Livingston , Jon / Moore , Joe / Oldfather , Felicia (CART) Imperial Japan 1800-1945 (The Japan Reader) Pantheon 1973 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Previous owners name inking. Book #or1145219. ISBN #0394706684 / 9780394706689. (keywords: Japan History Imperial) (filed under: Japan ) *
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Nakazawa, Keiji Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima New Society Publishers 1987 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1179716. ISBN #0865710953 / 9780865710955. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Nakazawa, Keiji Barefoot Gen: The Day After New Society Publishers 1988 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1179713. ISBN #0865711232 / 9780865711235. (filed under: Japan ) *
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O. D. R. Achi Kochi The Japan Advertiser Press. 1928 hardcover. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1125376. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Oda, James Secret Embedded in Magic Cables: The Story of a 101 Year Old Japanese Communist Leader Who Served Japan, KGB and CIA 1993 paperback. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1156641. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Satoh, Henry Lord Hotta: The Pioneer Dipolomat of Japan (Second Edition) Hakubunkan 1908 hardcover. Spine has a scrape; some foxing; some staining to the cover. . BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1186524. (filed under: Japan ) *
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Turnbull, Stephen R. Book of the Samurai: The Warrior Class of Japan Gallery Books 1982 hardcover. Previous owner name written on front endpage.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150693. ISBN #0831776765 / 9780831776763. (keywords: Japan, Samurai) (filed under: Japan ) *
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